Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) mentioned on Wednesday evening that there’s no probability he’d vote for Donald Trump in November’s election.
“No, no, no, completely not,” he mentioned when requested by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins if he might solid a poll for the previous president.
He mentioned he considers each coverage and character when selecting “the one who is the instance of the president for my youngsters and my grandkids.”
Trump’s a blended bag on coverage: Although Romney agrees with a lot of the previous president’s home agenda, he mentioned he disagrees with him on international coverage.
“However there’s one other dimension apart from coverage, and that’s character,” Romney mentioned. “And I believe what America is as a nation, what has allowed us to be essentially the most highly effective nation on Earth and the chief of the Earth, is the character of the individuals who have been our leaders, previous presidents, but additionally moms, fathers, church leaders, college presidents and so forth.”
That’s the place Trump falls properly in need of the mark, he mentioned.
“Having a president who’s so defaulted of character would have an unlimited influence on the character of America. And for me, that’s the first consideration.”
Romney didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, and he mentioned final yr he would seemingly make the identical resolution on the polls in November ought to Trump be the nominee.
“It’s fairly easy. It’s the identical factor I’ve performed previously. I’ll vote for Ann Romney, who’ll be a terrific president,” he mentioned on CNBC, referring to his spouse.
Romney and Trump have had a contentious relationship for years. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, delivered a speech in 2016 urging his occasion to reject Trump, whom he slammed as a “phony” and a “fraud.”
“He’s enjoying the American public for suckers,” he mentioned on the time.
When Trump gained, nevertheless, Romney infamously sat for a clumsy dinner with him, reportedly in hopes of being named secretary of state. When that didn’t pan out, he ran for Senate. Since successful that election, he has constantly criticized Trump and was one among simply seven Republican senators to vote to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial.
Romney is retiring from the Senate slightly than run for reelection this yr.
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